Dominique Visse Countertenor

Biography

Dominique Visse entered the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris at the age of 11. At the same time, he began studying the organ and flute, which he completed at the Conservatoire national de Versailles. With a passion for medieval and Renaissance music, he met countertenor Alfred Deller in 1976 and became his student. He has also worked with Nigel Rogers, René Jacobs and William Christie. In 1978, Dominique Visse founded the Ensemble Clément Janequin, with whom he recorded a series of discs of French polyphonic songs from the Renaissance.

The following year, he joined Les Arts Florissants as a singer and transcriber. He has worked with René Jacobs, Jean-Claude Malgoire, William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, Alan Curtis, Nicholas MacGegan, Christophe Rousset, Robert King, Ivor Bolton, Harry Bicket, Emmanuelle Haïm and Vincent Dumestre.

He has performed in the opera houses of Paris, London, Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Amsterdam, Geneva, Lausanne, Tel Aviv, Houston, Madrid, Barcelona and Brussels, as well as at the festivals of Glyndebourne, Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, Innsbruck and Edinburgh. He is also involved in the creation of contemporary works such as Wonderful Deluxe by Brice Pauset at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Outis by Luciano Berio at La Scala in Milan, La Frontière by Philippe Manoury at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and La Dispute by Benoît Meunier at La Monnaie in Brussels.

As a conductor, he has recently worked with the Café Zimmermann ensemble and Aedes, the Atelier lyrique de Tourcoing, the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Hungarian Radio Choir. Dominique Visse has made more than one hundred recordings, mainly for the Harmonia Mundi label.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Giulio Cesare (Nireno), 1987, 1988, 1997, 2002, 2011, 2013; Orphée aux Enfers (Amor), 1988, 1989; Perelà, l'homme de fumée (l'Archevêque), 2003; Le Couronnement de Poppée (Arnalta, Famigliare di Seneca, Nutrice), 2005.

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